Camera-shutter



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W. SHAKESPEARE, Jr. & G. W. LOW.

CAMERA SEUTTER.

No. 398,980. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

N. PETERS, Phalo-blhogmpher, Washing'lnn. n. c.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. W. SHAKESPEARE, Jr. & G. W. LOW.

GAMERA SHUTTER.

No. 398,980. Patented Mar. 5, 1889'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FMCE.

lVILLIAU SHAKESPEARE, JR, AND GARRETT \T. LOlV, OF KALAMAZOO,

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CAMERA-SHUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,980, dated March 5, 1889. Application filed July 3, 1888. Serial No. 278,925. (No modclfl To all whom it may concern.-

Be 1t known that we, lVILLIAM SHAKES- PEARE,J1., and GARRETT W. Low,both of Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo and State v of Michigan, have invented a new and useful I Improvement in CameraShutters, of which lap or to recede from each other are used to cover or expose the opening in the camera which faces the lens through which light is admitted when making an exposure; and the invention consists in certain novel construe special means for operating said slides; also a special construction of parts for taking stereoscopic pictures, the invention, however, being also applicable to cameras having but a single exposing-aperture.

The improved shutter, while being particularly adapted for use in taking instantaneous photographs, may also be used for taking shutters of different kinds, including curvilinearly-moving double slides, it is preferred to actuate the shutter from any convenient distance by an air-cylinder and piston controlled by a flexible hand-bull), or otherwise.

Reference is to be had to the drawings, forming a part of this specification,

corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of the shutter-case of a camera having but a single exposing-aperture, also showing a similarlyapertured board, which may represent the front end of the camera at back of said case, likewise showing the shutter slides when closed and the air device for actuating the shutter. Fig.2 is a section of the same, mainly tional view mainly upon the line 3 larsection or rear view showing the shut-terslides as thrown open. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4:, but showing the shutter as adapted to a camera having two exposingapertures for taking stereoscopic pictures.

tions and combinations of parts, including Referring in the first instance, or more par ticularly, to the first four figures of the drawing, A is the shutter-case, which maybe made of metal and which has an exposing-aperture, b, in it in line with a similar aperture, also marked 1), in. the board B, on which the case A is secured by screws or otherwise, and so that the case forms a light-tight junction at its edges with said board. The exposing aperture or apertures l) are of course in line with or opposite the camera-lens.

C C are the pivoted or swinging slides, which combined form the shutter proper, and which may be made of any suitable material and of any suitable shape to close the exposing-aperture when made to swing or advance toward each other and overlap one another at their meeting edges as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or which when made to recede sufficiently far from each other open the cXposing-aperture, as shown in Fig. t. These curvilinearly-moving slides or sectional shutters C 0 work close up to the back of the case A and are fitted to swing or rock upon a pivot or pin, 0, (here shown as arranged below and time pictures, and, as in the case of cameraserving as the working pivot for both slides, C 0,) said pivot or pin 1; being carried by the shutter case or frame.

accompanying Near the pivot ends of the slides C C, on opposite sides of the pivot 0, two curved slots, (1 d, are made in said slides-that is, one slot (Z in each. These slots are of reverse and diff ferent curvatures, and are struck from indem which simllar letters of reference indicate 1 pendent centers far removed from the pivotal center 0 of the slides C C, and virtually form reverse inclines. The case A is also constructed with curved slots 6 c in it near the pivotal ends of the slides C C. The purpose of these several slots will be hereinafter explained.

Pivoted to the back of the case A, or inside of the shutter-frame, as by a pin, f, arranged above the exposlug-aperture b or on the opupon the line a: in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a see-' I y in Fig. l 1, looking toward the front, and Fig. la simiposite side of it to that occupied by the shutter-pivot c, is a pendent or swinging shutteroperating plate, arm, or lover, I), having an enlarged exposing-aperture, Z), in it and arranged to lie on or against the backs of the shutter-slides C C. Said plate I) is steadied or guided in its vibrating movement, and has its extent of motion limited by the extension of the pivot-pin through a curved slot, in said plate.

E is the cylinder of the air-enginc or shutter-actuating device, with-its attached flexible be otherwise and more slowly operated for tube h and hand-bulb 1', and 1 is the piston arranged to move in or out of said cylinder accordingly as the flexible bulb i is compressed I The or relaxed by the action of the hand.

to project from the side of the swinging plate,

arm, or lever l), and of su iticient. length to pass through the slot (Z of the one swinging slide 0 through the one slot e in the case, and from thence to engage with the slotted projection In of the piston F. The swinging plate D is 1 tion or swinging slide has but half the distance to move, is preferred. I

,lVhile more particularly adapted to instantaneous photographing, the shutter may taking time pictures.

The two shutter-slides C C are notched at their upper ends to engage with the pin f when said slides are closed, and when said slides are thrown back or open jar may be avoided by causing them to strike against rubber or yielding stops at m.

Fig. 5 of the drawings shows substantially the same construction, but as applied to a shutter-frame of a camera having two exposingapertures out of line with each other for operation in connection with duplicate lenses,

' to be used in taking stereoseopirig-pictures.

also provided on its face with another stud, l, arranged to pass through the slot (Z of the 1 other swinging slide C and to enter or take its bearing in the other slot (2 in the case, but need not extend beyond that, and consequently may be made shorter that the pin or stud I, which connects with the piston F. The

slots (2 e in the case A are struck from the pivot-pin f as a center, and their walls serve to form bearings for the pins Z Z; but the one i of said slots which receives the shorter pin 7 0 or stud, Z, might be omitted and only the other one retained for the pin Z, which engages with the piston F to pass through.

In the operation of the shutter as thus constructed, and when the several parts are put 3 5 together as represented and described, upon compressing the hand-bulb i and forcing outward the piston F, the pin Z, attached to the plate, arm, or lever D, and in engagement with said piston will be moved to one side,

40 and will swing or move the plate D along with it, and as the pins Z and Z both engage with the specially and reversely curved or inclined slots (2 (Z in the shutter-slides C 0, both of said slides will be moved outward 5 or away from each other to uncover the exposing-aperture b. Upon releasing pressure from the hand-bulb, however, then a reverse action will take place, and the shutter-slides C 0 working toward each other will meet or overlap one another, and so close the exposlever-shutter-opcrating plate, and in some cases, if desired, this lever-plate might be used in connection with a shutter which is not divided into two separate slides, but is all in one and moves wholly across the exposing- 6o aperture, in which case said lever-plate would only be provided with a single pin to operate the shutter, and only one set of slots in the shutter and ease forsaid pin to work through would be necessary. The sectionally con- 6 5 structed shutter, however, in which each see- In such case the swinging shutter-sections C C are made with additional wings or extensions, s .5, arranged to control the second or lower exposing aperture, D in the shutter frame or case.

Having thus described our invention,what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a camera-shutter, the combination, with a swinging or rocking slotted shutter, of a pivoted arm, lever, or plate provided with a pin arranged to engage with the slot in the shutter for operating the latter, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the aperturcd shutter case or frame and its pivoted shutterslides C 0, having reverse slots (1 (Z, of the pivoted lever-like operating-plate D, having studs or pins Z Z ,arranged to engage with said slots, essentially as and for the purpose herein set. forth.

3. The combination, with the apertured shutter case or frame having slots 6, of the swinging or rocking shutter-slides C 0, having a common pivot, c, and reverse slots (1 d, and the pivoted arm, lever, or operating-plate D, having a slot, g, and pins Z Z, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of the piston F of the air-cylinder E with the pivoted lever-like shutter-operating plate D, having attached pins Z Z, and the pivoted swinging or rocking shutter-slides C 0, having reverse slots d d, essentially as described.

5. The combination, with a shutter case or frame having duplicate exposing-apertures b 19 out of line with each other, of a pivoted swinging or rocking slotted shutter or shutter-slides having extension-wings s, and the pivoted arm, lever, or shutter-operatin g plate with attached pin or pins for operating the shutter, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, JR. GARRETT \V. LOXV.

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ANDREW J. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

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